{"id":2968,"date":"2020-09-21T20:18:24","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T00:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/?p=2968"},"modified":"2020-09-21T20:18:24","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T00:18:24","slug":"9-23-isa-keetley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2020\/09\/21\/9-23-isa-keetley\/","title":{"rendered":"9\/23 Isa Keetley"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reading Ch.7 of PHUS I was most surprised when learning about Andrew Jackson. In elementary, middle, and high school, I never learned much more than that he was a president that fought and led bravely in the War of 1812. Was Andrew Jackson just another one of the \u201cAmerican Myths\u201d that I learned growing up? Never did I learn of the atrocities he committed against the Native Americans. Not only did Jackson pass the Indian Removal Act, but in Florida he lied to them, killed, manipulated, and ordered villages to be destroyed when they did not agree with his terms and conditions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Another idea Zinn brought up that I found to be most interesting was \u201ctribal disintegration\u201d. I had never heard of the term in relation to tribes, but it fits perfectly. The Americans at the time could not always fight the Native Americans, thus they employed other tactics, such as killing game so that there were food shortages, influencing them with whiskey, and smaller military attacks. Of course the Natives had no chance of winning if the Americans were slowly starving them, getting them drunk, and then attacking them. Zinn also repeats the term \u201cIndian Removal,\u201d a more harsh way of saying, what I was taught growing up- expansion. In order to expand, the Native Americans needed to be removed from the territory because there was no chance that the white people would live with them, because they were \u201csavages,\u201d \u201cuncivilized,\u201d and \u201cviolent\u201d. I think the unwillingness of the Americans to live amongst shows how scared and intimidated they really were by them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In terms of the short story, <\/span>Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience<\/span><\/i>, I thought it was very interesting how the idea of a VR \u201cexperience\u201d was something people paid for to go on a spiritual journey. I feel like this is disrespectful to Native Americans, because vision quests are so sacred and the idea of people who may not necessarily come from Native American descent capitalizing off of them seems wrong. The main character changing his last name from Turnblatt to Trueblood was what made me consider this. It seemed like he was trying to sell something false and foreign to him. And in the end, this caught up to him. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading Ch.7 of PHUS I was most surprised when learning about Andrew Jackson. In elementary, middle, and high school, I never learned much more than…<\/p>\n

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